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Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti [microform] : sive transitus ad occasum suprà terras Americanas in Chinam atq, Iaponem ducturi, recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo : item, exegesis Regi Hispaniae facta, super tractu recens detecto, in quintâ orbis parte, cui nomen Avstralis incognita : cum descriptione terrarum Samoiedarum & Tingoesiorum in Tartariâ ad ortum Freti VVaygats sitarum nuperq, sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum

by: Gerritsz, Hessel, 1581?-1632; Hudson, Henry, d. 1611; Massa, Isaac Abrahamszoon, 1586-1643; Plancius, Petrus, 1552-1622; Queiros, Pedro Fernandes de, d. 1615

Publication date: 1613
Publisher: Amsterodami : Ex officina Hefselij Gerardi
Collection: university_of_alberta_libraries_microfilm; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto; microfilm
Contributor: Canadiana.org
Language: Latin
Item Size: 78.7M

Translated by Reiner Telle -British Library Catalogue, 1975

Text in Latin

First printed account of Hudson's discoveries in the Canadian Arctic, and the first map of Hudson's Bay and adjacent territory

Edited by H. Gerritsz

Second Latin ed., 1st issue; 2nd issue of the Latin ed. has appendix of 2 leaves at end. First Latin ed. published: Amsterdam, 1612

References: Alden, J.E. European Americana, no. 613/63; Sabin 33491; Cf. JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, v. 2, p. 95-96 (2nd ed., 2nd issue)

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada

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